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Apple-Patent: Korrektursystem für iPhone-Vorsatzobjektive erfunden

Mit selbstjustierenden Kameras und Korrektursoftware sollen Smartphone-Vorsatzobjektive besser werden, wie Apple in einem neuen Patent zeigt. Das System könnte die Qualität der Fotos deutlich erhöhen. (Apple, Smartphone)

e-NV200: Nissans vollelektrisches Wohnmobil soll Kosten senken

Nissan hat einen vollelektrischen Camper auf Basis des e-NV200 vorgestellt. Das Antriebskonzept soll den Besitzern Kosten sparen. (Nissan, Technologie)

Server-CPU: Intel plant Ice Lake SP mit 10 nm für 2020

Intel will im übernächsten Jahr seine ersten Server-CPUs mit 10-nm-Technik veröffentlichen. Parallel dazu wird es eine 14-nm-Generation geben, quasi als Plan B. Zudem arbeitet der Hersteller an einem Nachfolger für die Xeon Phi, hier werden zwei Chips …

I-Pace: Elektro-Jaguars als Münchner Taxis

In München fahren ab August zehn Jaguar I-Pace als Taxis. Die Elektro-SUV werden mit Fördergeldern der Landeshauptstadt subventioniert und sind für Fahrgäste zu gewöhnlichen Preisen nutzbar. (Jaguar Land Rover, Technologie)

Quartalszahlen: AMD macht über 50 Prozent mehr Umsatz

Dank guter Radeon- und Ryzen-Verkäufe sowie einer höheren Nachfrage bei Spielekonsolen hat AMD deutlich mehr Chips abgesetzt als im Vorjahr und auch den Gewinn gesteigert. (AMD, Prozessor)

Voksi Retires: Cyberpolice Raid Cracker After Denuvo Criminal Complaint

The rivalry between Voksi and Denuvo appears to be over. Early Tuesday morning, up to six officers including two from Bulgaria’s General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime, raided the 21-year-old’s home. Voksi informs TorrentFreak they were acting following a criminal complaint filed by Irdeto, the company that bought Denuvo earlier this year.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Yesterday morning we reported how concern was mounting for infamous games cracker ‘Voksi’ after he uncharacteristically failed to appear online.

Fears only increased when his REVOLT forum began diverting to the Ministry of the Interior in Bulgaria. While some of his fans thought it was some kind of elaborate joke, those closest to him suspected that something had gone terribly wrong.

And it had.

Speaking with TorrentFreak last evening, an obviously emotional Voksi told us that early Tuesday morning he received unexpected visitors to his home in southern Bulgaria.

Five or six officers, including two from Bulgaria’s General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (GDBOB) and others from a local police station, appeared at his door. They clearly had one thing in mind – his anti-Denuvo activities.

It appears that Denuvo’s new owner, anti-piracy outfit Irdeto, had filed a criminal complaint against Voksi with Bulgarian authorities. How police found him isn’t clear but Voksi told TF that he had at least one piece of loose information out there that would’ve made it easy.

Perhaps surprisingly given the powerful response, Voksi wasn’t arrested at his home. He had equipment seized (his main PC and a server) but even when he attended the local police station to make a statement later in the day, he remained ‘free’.

Clearly concerned about what will happen next, Voksi didn’t want to go into too much detail about his statement. However, we get the impression that he didn’t make it difficult for authorities and was as straightforward as possible with what probably amounts to a confession.

Voksi also wasn’t clear on what the charges against him might be, if there are any. He knows that the police spoke about the damage he had done to Denuvo but beyond that, details in respect of specific laws aren’t readily available.

Voksi also told us that during Tuesday he took the opportunity to contact Denuvo with some kind of offer to bring the whole situation to a peaceful conclusion.

The Bulgarian didn’t want to go into details on how the discussion went or what was said but he suggested that Denuvo felt the final decision might not be entirely theirs, considering the local prosecutor is now in charge of the case.

What happens to Voksi in the immediate future isn’t known but it’s clear that he won’t be continuing with his cracking work. For his REVOLT forum, the game is also over. Voksi informs TF that the authorities have already seized the domain so the site won’t be coming back.

Finally, Voksi has had zero representation so far. We double checked – no lawyer was provided to him before, during, or after questioning. He’ll be needing someone to help out in southern Bulgaria, close to the city of Plovdiv.

“If you are a lawyer or someone who wants to fight, or just someone who wants to express his feelings, you can contact me currently over the RVT Discord or personally on Discord – Voksi#3486,” he concludes.

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Decade-old Bluetooth flaw lets hackers steal data passing between devices

Serious error in the wireless protocol also lets hackers tamper with data.

A large number of device makers are patching a serious vulnerability in the Bluetooth specification that allows attackers to intercept and tamper with data exchanged wirelessly. People who use Bluetooth to connect smartphones, computers, or other security-sensitive devices should make sure they install a fix as soon as possible.

The attack, which was disclosed in a research paper published Wednesday, is serious because it allows people to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on the connection between vulnerable devices. From there, attackers can view any exchanged data, which might include contacts stored on a device, passwords typed on a keyboard, or sensitive information used by medical, point-of-sale or automotive equipment. Attackers could also forge keystrokes on a bluetooth keyboard to open up a command window or malicious website in an outright compromise of the connected phone or computer.

Not novel

Bluetooth combines Simple Secure Pairing or LE Secure Connections with principles of elliptic curve mathematics to allow devices that have never connected before to securely securely establish a secret key needed for encrypted communications. The attack uses a newly developed variant of what cryptographers call an invalid curve attack to exploit a major shortcoming in the Bluetooth protocol that remained unknown for more than a decade. As a result, attackers can force the devices to use a known encryption key that allows the monitoring and modifying of data wirelessly passing between them.

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Facebook stock dives nearly 20% on warning of slow revenue growth

But, Facebook’s quarterly profits were up quite a lot: 31% year-over-year.

Facebook has shown that it cannot sail forever forward while facing various storms, including Cambridge Analytica and the Russian government's use of the social media platform to sow divisions amongst Americans during the 2016 presidential campaign.

As part of its second quarter of 2018 earnings announcement on Wednesday, the company trumpeted a huge jump in both year-over-year revenue (42 percent) and profit (31 percent).

But there’s also been a notable slowdown in user growth. (Anyone recently delete their Facebook accounts?)

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Panasonic launches Toughbook T1 handheld and Toughbook L1 tablet

This week Panasonic added the Toughbook N1 handheld device to its line of ultra-durable portable computing gadgets. Now the company is introducing two more models. The Panasonic Toughbook T1 is a rugged handheld with a 5 inch display, and the Toughbook…

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Leaked benchmarks show Intel is dropping hyperthreading from i7 chips

i7 chips will have 8 cores and 8 threads, leaving the 8 core/16 thread combination for the i9.

While Intel's naming scheme for its processors is often best described as "obtuse," there have been some patterns that the company seemed to follow. For desktop processors, the i7 branding denotes chips with hyperthreading enabled, running two threads on each core. i5-branded parts had the same number of cores but with hyperthreading disabled. i3 parts in turn had fewer cores than i5 parts, but once again with hyperthreading enabled. The 8th generation chips changed this pattern a little—the desktop i3s don't have hyperthreading, just fewer cores—but the relationship between the i5s and i7s remained.

It looks like the next batch of Intel processors, probably branded 9th generation, is going to shake this situation up further. Benchmarks found in the SiSoft Sandra database list a Core i7-9700K processor. This increases the core count from the current six cores in the 8th generation Coffee Lake parts to eight cores, but, even though it's an i7 chip, it doesn't appear to have hyperthreading available. Its base clock speed is 3.6GHz, peak turbo is 4.9GHz, and it has 12MB cache. The price is expected to be around the same $350 level as the current top-end i7s.

For the chip that will sit above the i7-9700K in the product lineup, Intel is extending the use of its i9 branding, initially reserved for the X-series High-End Desktop Platform. The i9-9900K will be an eight-core, 16-thread processor. This bumps the cache up to 16MB and the peak turbo up to 5GHz—and the price up to an expected $450.

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